Unreason Quotes

When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.

We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular.

Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness;

it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither limit nor transcribe, nor most certainly explain, what is essential in this enterprise.

I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.

Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television.

It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.

I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see nothing that marks man's unreason so positively as war. Indeed, what folly to kill one another for interests often imaginary, and always for the pleasure of persons who do not think themselves even obliged to those who sacrifice themselves for them!

Unreasonable self-criticism represents a form of self-hatred and fear.

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Science stands for rational thought, faith for superstition and unreason.